(c) Financing needs for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Among other options, Africa needs market access and investments to generate resources to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

Alongside short term goals, the United Nations, with academia and civil society, needs to consider longer term scenarios and desired outcomes.

Most of the TNA studies completed to date addressed the needs for mitigation technologies, and only a few addressed the needs for technologies for adaptation and their integration in the suitable development goals.

(a) World Food Programme Meeting the needs of children an essential foundation for achieving the Millennium Development Goals

However the pace of this change needs to be increased considerably if the Millennium Development and EFA goals are to be met.

Finally, Europe s energy mix is gradually shifting from the one that it needs to reach its climate change goals.

As elaborated in the Millennium Project, all are essential for meeting the Goals, as well as wider development needs.

Further, we must note that the Goals do not address the special needs of the medium income developing countries.

The Group should also establish clearly defined indicators and criteria that reflected Member States' needs with a view to attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

The Bretton Woods institutions could play a stronger role in meeting the financial needs of developing countries for implementing human settlements goals and targets.

Finally, we hope to cooperate with the developed countries in implementing the agreements reached in the Millennium Declaration Goals, particularly the Millennium Development Goals, as they pertain to meeting Africa's needs at all levels.

These documents stressed that significant additional financial assistance over an extended period of time will be needed to meet Africa's human needs and development goals.

The greatest challenge, however, was to draw a poverty map which would adapt national development goals to the needs of local communities.

Policymaking that is consistent with social development goals also needs a decision making system that incorporates the principles of participation and transparency and consideration for equity and equality.

We state our trust in the Commission on Social Development to fulfil these urgent needs of families and to attain the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

An action plan for children in terms of health protection of mothers and children needs to put an emphasis on implementation of prevention programmes and clearly stated goals that are in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and goals of WHO

It is vital that the tools the international community has developed to further those goals and to balance the interests and needs of States be applied consistently and fairly.

Within the context of the joint United Nations World Bank needs assessments and recovery planning, the Goals provide important targets and indicators for planning the transition out of conflict.

We now have a clearer sense than ever before of what needs to be done to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and we must keep up that momentum.

By contrast, contributions in the context of the Millennium Development Goals for pressing needs such as poverty, natural disasters and the environment are very modest and are even being reduced.

The achievement of the Millennium Development Goals may be held back by a conceptual approach that needs to be reviewed as a matter of urgency.

This presentation pointed out that the Millennium Development Goals, as a powerful tool for generating consensus on international development, had the potential to further the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women if each of the goals took into account women's unique needs and priorities.

For her country, the goals of overcoming poverty and achieving equality were not new. They were part and parcel of Cuba's strategy of socio economic development, which centred on human needs.

The working groups emphasized that TNAs play a crucial role in identifying the needs for technologies for adaptation, and that technology transfer should be integrated into overall national development goals.

To that end, political commitment and appropriate resource allocation were needed in order to meet the goals set at the special session of the General Assembly on children. Children's rights and needs would be a cross cutting theme at the review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2005.

Each national strategy needs to take into account seven broad clusters of public investments and policies which directly address the Millennium Development Goals and set the foundation for private sector led growth.

Aid should be linked to the local needs identified in countries' national strategies and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, not to the interests of suppliers in donor countries.

There is thus a need to ensure that policy interventions to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty and hunger should take into account the needs and concerns of those vulnerable groups.

While the Millennium Development Goals set out to promote gender equality, education, social inclusion and environmental sustainability, they focus primarily on people's material needs, including income poverty, hunger, disease, and provision of shelter.

Recognizing the importance of the review of the progress achieved towards meeting the goals and targets contained in the Programme of Action, as well as other internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration, as they address the special needs of the least developed countries,

The Goals are both the front and back end of the poverty reduction strategy paper process the Goals represent the overarching framework for the process and the way to monitor whether they are performing as advertised paying real attention to the needs of the poor and overall development priorities, not just economic targets.

The Millennium Development Goals make it possible for those ideas to be translated into concrete achievements that will meet the needs of the poorer and more vulnerable segments of society in particular.

Special focus needs to be placed on Africa's water development and management, and on gender, water and sanitation initiatives, if the goals of the Water for Life Decade are to be achieved in that region.

The Advisory Panel has observed that these and other documents have stressed that significant additional financial assistance over an extended period of time will be needed to meet Africa's human needs and development goals.

Despite progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, a great deal must still be done to address the poverty and despair that deprive so many people of basic human needs and dignity.

Goals and expectations

Purpose and goals

Special theme the Millennium Development Goals and indigenous peoples redefining the Goals

Mr. Lorenzo (Dominican Republic) said that his Government had been one of the seven pilot countries to submit a Millennium Development Goals needs assessment report during the World Summit.

Bearing in mind the heavy reliance of most of the Caribbean economies on their coastal areas, as well as on the marine environment in general, to achieve their sustainable development needs and goals,

Bearing in mind the heavy reliance of most of the Caribbean economies on their coastal areas, as well as on the marine environment in general, to achieve their sustainable development needs and goals,

Bearing in mind the heavy reliance of most of the Caribbean economies on their coastal areas, as well as on the marine environment in general, to achieve their sustainable development needs and goals,

The Millennium Development Goals enable us to better understand what needs to be done, while confronting us with the challenge of designing a strategy and obtaining sufficient resources to make their achievement possible.

On an encouraging note, the goals are indeed achievable the world community knows what needs to be done and has the resources that are necessary to achieve commitments, but promises must be kept.